Kxtnisuke stxyehiro



K. SUYEHIRO.

GAME.

APPLICATI'ON FILED SEPT. s. 1918.

1,321,405 Patented MW. 11, 1919.

WITNESSES ATTORN EY UNITED STATES PATENT GFFTCE.

KUNISUKE SUYEI-IIRO,.OF EUREKA, UTAH.

GAME.

Application filed September 3, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KUNISUKE SUYEnrRo, a subject of the Emperor ofJapan, resldlng at Eureka, in the county of Juab and State of Utah, haveinvented a new and useful Game, of which the following is aspec1fication.

This invention has reference to games, and its object is to provide aform of game n which a game board is employed and 111 which the plan ofthe game is simllar to but in certain respects different from the gameof checkers.

In accordance with the invention, the game board, which may be ofrectangular outline, is divided off into squares and diagonal lines withthe intersections constituting stopping points. At one part of theboard, preferably though not necessarily the top of the board, is acircumscr bed space having a single point of entrance, into which spaceit is the purpose of the game to drive a certain checker constitutingthe sole checker belonging to one side.

The nature of the game is such that the one checker may win the gamefrom sixteen other checkers constituting the opposing side, or the onechecker may be driven into the inclosed or circumscribed space fromwhich escape may be blocked.

The invention will be best understood from a' consideration of thefollowing detailed description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing forming part of this specification, with the understanding,however, that the invention is not confined to any strict conformitywith the showing of the drawing but may be changed and modified so longas such changes and modifications mark no material departure from thesalient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of a game board arranged inaccordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 shows plan views of checkers used in the game.

Referring to the drawing, there is shown a board 1 which may be quitesimilar, in general form, to the well lmown checker board. The board isprovided with a playing face 2, shown in the drawing as of generallyrectangular shape, divided by lines 3, 4:, in perpendicular relation toeach other, into numerous squares and these squares are Specification ofLetters Patent.

Serial No, 252,452.

each divided by diagonal lines ,5 into rightangle triangles. At theintersections of the lines 3, a and 5 are indicia 6, shown in thedrawing as circles, so as to indicate stopping places for the playingdevices. To outline the playing space is a border line 7 spaced awayfrom the outer edges of the board to provide a border 8 which may beornamented in any desired manner or may be free from ornamentation.

The playing space is made shorter than the length of the board, whichlatter may be longer in one way than in the other, and the playing spaceterminates closer to one end of the board than to the other. A Thisleaves room for a space 9 placed diagonally. with relation to thesquares in the playing space 2 and so related to the border line 7 thata station or stopping place 6 occurs at the entrance to the space 9,which latter contains cross lines 8 and 4, while the border line isarranged diagonally, as indicated at 7.

The game board may be ornamented in any way desired but no particulardescription of such ornamentation need be given.

In order to play the game, checkers or, as sometimes designated, men,10, 11 are provided, these checkers being seventeen in number in theparticular arrangement shown in the drawings, sixteen of the checkersbeing of one color and one of the checkers being of another color, orthe checkers may be otherwise differentiated. For convenience it may beconsidered that the checkers 10 are all red and the checker 11 is blue,the purpose being solely for distinction.

In order to play the game, the red checkers are placed upon all themarginal stations 6, there being sixteen such stations, and the bluechecker is placed upon the central station 6. Each checker may be movedone space at a time, as in the ordinary game of checkers.

In playing the game either side maystart. The plan of attack of the bluechecker is to get between two red checkers, in which case the two redcheckers become dead and are removed from the board. The plan of attackof the red checkers is to avoid such contingency but at the same timeforce the blue checker toward the isolated square 9 and ultimately tothe end thereof, whereupon, the blue checker, being unable to escape,loses the game. If the blue checker is enabled to reduce the number ofred checkers to less than four, the game is won by the blue side. Theplaying of the game does not contemplate jumping as in the ordinary gameof checkers.

The devices used in playing the game are usually made round likecheckers and may contain a representation 12 of any suitable kind, theparticular representation shown in the drawing being that of a knight,and the game being preferably known as Sixteen Knights. The game isintended particularly for children or youths and the name and pictorialrepresentations on the check ers and on the game board may be such as toappeal to younger people. These features, however, are susceptible tochange and may be modified as the manufacturer desires.

What is claimed is A game comprising a game board having a playing facedivided by crossed lines into squares, with each square divided bydiagonal lines into an orderly continuous arrangement of right-angletriangles grouped about a central point and with the intersections ofthe lines designated, and the play ing face having outside of its limita single I rectangular extension arranged in diagonal I at the cornersof the rectangular extension,

said rectangular extension being connected to the main playing face by asingle contracted entrance gate at one corner, and a single playingdevice for one player and a plurality of playing devices for anotherplayer, whereby the player provided with the plurality of playingdevices may ultimately drive the other player with the single playingdevice into the far corner of the rectangular extension of the playingface.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoaflixed my signature.

KUNISUKE SUYEHIRO. WVitnesses:

WM. DoUeLAss, P. J. BONNER.

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